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A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world''s great writers.
The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. But Anna''s voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared.
Rich with compassion, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is one of Auster''s most luminous works - a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory. -
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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.
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On March 3, 1947 Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born. From that single beginning, his life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Fergusons story rushes on across twentieth-century America. A sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
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En 1995 et 1996, à l'occasion de deux séjours à New York, Gérard de Cortanze proposa à Paul Auster, qu'il lisait et admirait de longue date, de répondre à un faisceau serré de questions sur sa vie, sa carrière, son oeuvre. De la complicité qui s'établit entre eux, ces entretiens témoignent d'une double manière : par la pertinence des questions, par la parfaite probité des réponses. A bâtons rompus, Paul Auster raconte ici sa jeunesse, ses débuts, ses années noires et ses premiers succès. Il s'interroge sur ses influences, parle de littérature, de cinéma, de religion, de vie privée, de politique, de New York, cette "Cité de verre" qui est un personnage clé de ses livres, et de Brooklyn, port d'attache de ses oeuvres les plus récentes. Précédés d'une étude très dense du "labyrinthe" austérien, accompagnés de photographies, et d'une biobibliographie particulièrement détaillée, tel un "mode d'emploi" ces entretiens séduiront tous ceux qui désiraient que Paul Auster, un jour, en dise un peu plus...